English

Alternative forms

• nerddom

Noun

nerdom ‎(uncountable)

1. (colloquial, rare) The attitudes and behaviours of a nerd; nerdiness.
   • 1983, Nan Robertson, “Tigers or ‘top girls,’ Valerie Mahaffey adjusts,” The New York Times, April 1, 1983^[1]

     When she was 17 she fell in love with a schoolmate named Ben: 'Together, we pulled each other out of nerddom,' she said.

   • 1997, Frederick S. Clarke, Cinefantastique, Volume 29

     The self-described "exemplar of nerdom" feels right at home with Carl Sagan's speculative science-fiction.

   • 2008, Maximum PC (October 2008)

     Even movies that first appear to add a promising element of nerdom always end up doing something dumb, like tarnishing a tense computer-based drama with idiotic and unusable (but oh so very sexy) 3D interfaces.

2. (colloquial, rare) Nerds, considered as a group.
   • 2009, Jack Nutting, Dave Mark, Jeff LaMarche, Learn Cocoa on the Mac

     I still chuckle at some of jokes^[sic] that we targeted to very narrow slices of nerdom.

Usage notes

The rough synonym geekdom is more common.^[1]

Related terms

• geekdom

Anagrams

• modern
• normed

References

1. 1 2 3 “nerddom”, Word Spy